Rearrangements

Making One Image From the Pixels of Another

Introduction

My idea was to take the pixels of one famous painting and rearrange
them to try to form the image of another famous painting. The
pixels cannot be altered in any way, and each pixel has to be used
exactly once. The concept notwithstanding, the results were
not as interesting as I'd hoped. They mostly look like
strange colorizations of the target image.

Examples

Source Pixels

Target Image

Resulting Rearrangment

Van Gogh's Starry Night

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Edvard Munch's The Scream

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Picasso's Three Musicians

Monet's Woman, Umbrella Turned to the Left

Picasso's Three Musicians

Tommie Smith and John Carlos
at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Richard Diebenkorn's Cityscape I

Gustave Caillebotte's Paris: A Rainy Day

How To Make Them

The process of making these is pretty much the same as making a
photomosaic except that the source images are all 1x1 pixel.
At first I thought I'd need to split each soure image into n
1x1 images and then use a photomosaic tool, but as it turns out metapixel
already supports this: